“C’est mon plaisir” …. ‘because it pleases me’ is the underlying motivation for every piece of art I make, photograph I take, or thing I pick up. Trained as a sculptor, I take photographs, paint, pick up random beautiful things, make assemblages, curate exhibitions, make props and costumes, occasionally put my words in public, love texture, and have written a Masters dissertation on ‘The Artist’s Role as Collector of Memory and Self’.